Continuity & Trailers

Red Dwarf originally aired between 1988 and 1999 on BBC Two and has since been repeated countless times on terrestrial, satellite and digital channels. Here we collect various continuity announcements from this long history, along with trailers and adverts created for promoting the show and merchandise at the time.

Below is a list of everything we currently have, sorted by year of transmission along with information on whether it was a repeat showing (for continuity) and some extra information for context.

BBC Two Continuity

Presented here in one handy video we have the continuity introductions for the first repeats of The End, Future Echoes, Balance of Power, Waiting for God, Confidence & Paranoia and Me2. This file was found on an old laptop and we don’t have the first clue who gave it to us. So, if you’re that person, please speak up!

This piece is evidently from the November repeat run of series VI, as the announcer talks about a ‘new’ series coming in a few weeks (Series VII was due to air in February). Since it seems like the start of the run, it is assumed this announcement is from episode 1 – Psirens.

International Trailers

This New Zealand trailer has evidentially been taken from the same session in which the American PBS trailer were recorded (which can be found on the series VIII DVD). Presumably they were used to advertise the show from at least 1999 onwards. The original forum thread.